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23 .TH CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE_LARGE 3 "19 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
25 CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE_LARGE \- maximum file size allowed to download
28 #include <curl/curl.h>
30 CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE_LARGE,
33 Pass a curl_off_t as parameter. This allows you to specify the maximum
34 \fIsize\fP (in bytes) of a file to download. If the file requested is found
35 larger than this value, the transfer will not start and
36 \fICURLE_FILESIZE_EXCEEDED\fP will be returned.
38 The file size is not always known prior to download, and for such files this
39 option has no effect even if the file transfer ends up being larger than this
40 given limit. This concerns both FTP and HTTP transfers.
50 Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
52 .BR CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE "(3), " CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE "(3), "